Ian D. Cooper (born 12 June 1954) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played with Collingwood in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). From East Reservoir, Cooper came to Collingwood as a forward but was used as a

back pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro ...

defender during his time in the VFL. He played his first game in 1972 but didn't establish a place in the team until 1974, keeping

Peter Hudson Peter John Hudson AM (born 19 February 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for the New Norfolk Football Club and Glenorchy Football Club in the ...

goal-less in Round 2 of 1974, and was a regular until 1977. Injuries restricted him to just 14 games in his final four seasons. He was however, despite having played just three times all year, selected in the 1981 VFL Grand Final. Cooper finished his career in the VFA with

Port Melbourne Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip local government areas. Port Melbourne recorded a populatio ...

.''The Age'', "Cook and Port in 'disgrace'", 9 July 1984, p. 23

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Ian 1954 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Collingwood Football Club players Port Melbourne Football Club players Living people